Yep --- I'm a long time KDE'er and just recently gave up with kubuntu and am really liking OpenSUSE.

You are comparing the policy of a few private companies to a government. If I don't like Blizzard or Apple's policy, I simply don't buy their products. This move by China is purely to limit the speech of its citizens.

I like the way Amarok does library browsing better...I don't like having Artist/Album in such a small window pane. Also, I have no use for iTunes/Songbird/Rhythmbox list of songs, I aways play full albums.

I'm sure the video file will be sitting on your device's SD card...not that hard to plug in your phone via usb and download it.

Why would you want to install apps to the SD card? This thing has 1 GB of ROM!!

Why would I want to pay $100 a month for cable, just to convert it to an SD analog signal? I would rather just pay the extra $5 per month for their DVR and get a nice HD picture...

Not all devices will be "blessed" by google, in fact many G1's in Asia do not have Google apps due to licensing issues. Also - the carrier gets a cut of the Market revenue, so there may be device/carrier specific modifications to the Market app to enable this tracking.

If Apple is BMW, you can be Porsche.

This isn't the point of Android. The point of android is to have high end, and inexpensive low end handsets. Google wants more people using smartphones...which means they want to drive the price down with a large range of handsets.

If Apple is BMW, Android can be Porsche, Ferrari, Toyota, Kia, Honda, etc....

How would putting them flat against the roof help when the entire roof gets blown off the house? This isn't unheard off...

I just checked http://www.britannica.com/ and get:

HTTP Status 404 - /

type Status report

message /

description The requested resource (/) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.14